What is dependable today may be dependable because someone refused to take it for granted yesterday.

Reliability in the present is usually inherited from somebody’s diligence in the past. The system that works, the institution that holds, the relationship that can take pressure. Somebody refused to assume it would keep going by itself, and the smoothness you now enjoy is what their attention purchased.

Ask who paid for the reliability you currently depend on. Then consider what you are currently doing that someone will inherit. The chain only continues if each holder keeps up their part.